Java Job Trends in Croydon

Java
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Croydon requiring Java skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 9 11
Rank change year-on-year +4 +2 +9
Permanent jobs citing Java 24 40 31
As % of all permanent jobs in Croydon 24.00% 26.32% 20.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 85.71% 57.14% 45.59%
Number of salaries quoted 1 6 13
10th Percentile - £60,625 -
25th Percentile £52,400 £61,250 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,200 £65,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.08% -18.75% +20.75%
75th Percentile £58,000 £68,750 £83,750
90th Percentile - - -
South London median annual salary £82,500 £61,250 £82,500
% change year-on-year +34.69% -25.76% +37.50%

All Programming Languages
Croydon

Java falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Croydon.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 28 70 68
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Croydon 28.00% 46.05% 43.87%
Number of salaries quoted 3 12 46
10th Percentile £55,920 - -
25th Percentile £61,200 £32,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £47,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +48.94% -35.17% +20.83%
75th Percentile - £65,000 £79,688
90th Percentile - £68,750 £83,750
South London median annual salary £46,000 £56,250 £67,500
% change year-on-year -18.22% -16.67% +12.50%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Java relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Croydon.

Java job vacancy trend in Croydon

Java
Salary Trend in Croydon

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Java.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Java

Java
Job Locations in Croydon

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the Croydon region over the 6 months to 8 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Kenley - 1 - -
Java
South London

Java
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (8.33%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 24 (100.00%) AWS
2 20 (83.33%) Amazon EC2
2 20 (83.33%) Amazon ECS
2 20 (83.33%) Amazon EKS
2 20 (83.33%) Serverless
3 4 (16.67%) Amazon S3
4 3 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (8.33%) Amazon ELB
5 2 (8.33%) Amazon Glacier
5 2 (8.33%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (8.33%) AWS KMS
5 2 (8.33%) GitHub
5 2 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (4.17%) GCP
6 1 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (4.17%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) DNS
1 2 (8.33%) FTP
1 2 (8.33%) HTTP
1 2 (8.33%) SMTP
1 2 (8.33%) SSH
2 1 (4.17%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (87.50%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (83.33%) Relational Database
3 18 (75.00%) RDBMS
4 3 (12.50%) SQL Server
5 2 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (4.17%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 24 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 19 (79.17%) JUnit
3 18 (75.00%) JMeter
3 18 (75.00%) Mockito
4 3 (12.50%) Git
5 2 (8.33%) GitLab
5 2 (8.33%) Subversion
5 2 (8.33%) Vagrant
6 1 (4.17%) Cucumber
6 1 (4.17%) Selenium
General
1 18 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (87.50%) Developer
2 20 (83.33%) Java Developer
3 18 (75.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 18 (75.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 15 (62.50%) Mid-Level Java Developer
5 3 (12.50%) Senior
6 2 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Linux DevOps Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Linux/Unix DevOps
6 2 (8.33%) Senior Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Senior Java Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Senior Software Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (87.50%) Spring
1 21 (87.50%) Spring Boot
2 20 (83.33%) REST
2 20 (83.33%) Web Services
3 18 (75.00%) ActiveMQ
3 18 (75.00%) Apache Camel
3 18 (75.00%) Hibernate
3 18 (75.00%) HTML
3 18 (75.00%) jQuery
3 18 (75.00%) JSON
3 18 (75.00%) WireMock
3 18 (75.00%) XML
4 3 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (12.50%) Kafka
5 2 (8.33%) Mustache
5 2 (8.33%) Node.js
5 2 (8.33%) React
6 1 (4.17%) Django
6 1 (4.17%) Flask
6 1 (4.17%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 20 (83.33%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (8.33%) Virtual Team
3 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.17%) Video on Demand
3 1 (4.17%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.50%) Linux
2 2 (8.33%) VMS
2 2 (8.33%) Windows
3 1 (4.17%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (91.67%) Agile
1 22 (91.67%) CI/CD
2 21 (87.50%) Microservices
2 21 (87.50%) TDD
3 19 (79.17%) BDD
4 18 (75.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 18 (75.00%) Process Management
4 18 (75.00%) Workflow
5 16 (66.67%) SDLC
6 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (12.50%) Configuration Management
7 3 (12.50%) DevOps
8 2 (8.33%) Cloud Security
8 2 (8.33%) Mentoring
8 2 (8.33%) OO
8 2 (8.33%) Process Improvement
8 2 (8.33%) Project Management
8 2 (8.33%) Root Cause Analysis
8 2 (8.33%) Scrum
9 1 (4.17%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 22 (91.67%) Python
2 20 (83.33%) JavaScript
3 18 (75.00%) Shell Script
4 2 (8.33%) C#
4 2 (8.33%) Groovy
4 2 (8.33%) Perl
4 2 (8.33%) Ruby
5 1 (4.17%) Bash
5 1 (4.17%) Delphi
5 1 (4.17%) Go
5 1 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (70.83%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) AWS Certification
2 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 21 (87.50%) Docker
2 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (87.50%) Kubernetes
2 18 (75.00%) Kibana
3 3 (12.50%) Nagios
3 3 (12.50%) Terraform
4 1 (4.17%) Ansible
4 1 (4.17%) Grafana
4 1 (4.17%) Icinga
4 1 (4.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (75.00%) Dynatrace
1 18 (75.00%) Splunk
2 3 (12.50%) Oracle
3 1 (4.17%) VMware